Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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