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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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