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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Jonathan Edwards

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
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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Faith God Nature Power
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
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Care Examination Force God Love
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Life Mindset Myself Proposition
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Action Assurance Exam
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Bold Himself Offend Transcendence True
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
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul

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