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

Jonathan Edwards

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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God Important Knowledge Ourselves
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
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
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
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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Appearance Charm Holy Soul
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
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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Beautiful Holy Important World
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Courage Live Myself
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word

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