God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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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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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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