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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Jonathan Edwards

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Anxiety Calm Mindset Nature Quiet
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Eyes Forever
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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God Prayer Privacy Way Work
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Evil Exception Goodness Reality Talk
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
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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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
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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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
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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Beautiful Holy Important World
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time

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