Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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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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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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