Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHoliness 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.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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.
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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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