Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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