The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe material universe exists only in the mind.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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