There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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