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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Jonathan Edwards

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
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
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Afraid Life Myself
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
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
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
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Faith Foundation God Improvement Obedience Purity Pursuit Religion
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Creation Display End Glorify Himself
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Important Knowledge Ourselves
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Live Myself Resolution Willing

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