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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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