Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEnvy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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