Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSJesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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 end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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