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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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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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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