If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAmong 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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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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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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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