The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGodliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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