How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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