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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Jonathan Edwards

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Heaven Spirit Wait World
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
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
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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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Beautiful Blessing Delight God Himself Rise Spiritual
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
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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God Known Live Man Presence Sin
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
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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God Live Myself Resolution Willing
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

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