When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSeek 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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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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