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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.
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God Important Knowledge Ourselves
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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Beautiful Holy Important World
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Heaven Spirit Wait World
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
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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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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God Ourselves Power Step
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.
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Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself
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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God Mercy Stand Stay
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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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
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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Anxiety Calm Mindset Nature Quiet
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Day Himself Judgement People
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Eyes Forever
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Appearance Charm Holy Soul
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Faith God Right Sin
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Business Chief God Life Seek

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