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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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