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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.

Jonathan Edwards

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Beginning God Himself Holy Love True
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
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
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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God Live Prayer World
True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Better True Weird World
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
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
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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God Greatness Spirit
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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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Beautiful Blessing Delight God Himself Rise Spiritual
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
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Bold Himself Offend Transcendence True

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