How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDSOne 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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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 material universe exists only in the mind.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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