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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue 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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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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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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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