Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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 who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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 God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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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