I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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