The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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