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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.

Jonathan Edwards

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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Creation Display End Glorify Himself
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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God Live Prayer World
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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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Afraid Life Myself
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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Day Himself Judgement People
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
Religion, 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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Faith Foundation God Improvement Obedience Purity Pursuit Religion
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Glory God Himself
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word

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