I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
JONATHAN EDWARDSJesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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