Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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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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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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