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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

Jonathan Edwards

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Business Chief God Life Seek
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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Care Examination Force God Love
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
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself
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
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
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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Follow God Love Man Stand
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
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
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Eyes Forever
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
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
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

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