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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.’

Jonathan Edwards

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Easy God Word
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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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
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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Care Examination Force God Love
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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Beautiful Holy Important World
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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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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God Known Live Man Presence Sin
True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Better True Weird World
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
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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Happiness Misery Ourselves Purchase Satisfaction
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Business Chief God Life Seek
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe

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