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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

Jonathan Edwards

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
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Education Effect Family Grace Order Prosperity
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
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 pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Action Assurance Exam
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Better True Weird World
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
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

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

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