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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.

Jonathan Edwards

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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God Ground Preparation Trust Way Yourself
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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God Prayer Privacy Way Work
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Finding Growth Knowledge Scripture
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Act Death God Myself
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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God Mercy Stand Stay
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
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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Evil Exception Goodness Reality Talk
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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Future Glory Grace Inheritance Morning
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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God Greatness Spirit
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
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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Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
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.
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Live Lose Moments Myself Possible
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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God Hell Man Moments Pleasure
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Beginning Glory Grace Perfection
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Beautiful Holy Important World
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Breathe Expression Life Natural Prayer
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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God Known Live Man Presence Sin

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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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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