He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
JONATHAN EDWARDSReligion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Consider 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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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 henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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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, 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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By 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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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 godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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