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

Jonathan Edwards

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
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
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Design God Happiness Unknown
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
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Best Each Other Expression Music Perfection Way
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, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Finding Growth Knowledge Scripture
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Care Examination Force God Love
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul

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