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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.

Jonathan Edwards

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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Better End Possible Respect Time
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
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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God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
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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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
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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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
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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Future Glory Grace Inheritance Morning
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk

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