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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

Jonathan Edwards

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Important Knowledge Ourselves
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
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
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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Believe God Place Possession Satan
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
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
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Believe Forever God Price Sacrifice
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Business Chief God Life Seek
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself

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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