There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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