Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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