When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBeing 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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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