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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.

Jonathan Edwards

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Better End Possible Respect Time
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
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
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
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
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 we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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Believe God Place Possession Satan
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
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
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
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Creation Display End Glorify Himself
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Courage Live Myself
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
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

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