Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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