True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDSOf all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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