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Surely 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.

Jonathan Edwards

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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God Greatness Spirit
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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God Ourselves Power Step
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself
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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Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Delight Hate Love Rise
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
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
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Design God Happiness Unknown
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Death Live Myself

Surely 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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