Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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