A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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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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