Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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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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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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