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

Jonathan Edwards

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Desire Easy Expectation Live World
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
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
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
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
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
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
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
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Eyes Forever
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
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

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