Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSConsider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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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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