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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Death Live Myself
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Faith God Right Sin
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Action Assurance Exam
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Anxiety Calm Mindset Nature Quiet
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
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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Faith God Nature Power
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Action God Influence Life Spirit
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution

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