Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSurely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Among 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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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