The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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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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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.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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 that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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