The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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