Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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