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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.

Jonathan Edwards

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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Break God Healing Himself Misery Peace Wound
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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Faith God Nature Power
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Day Himself Judgement People
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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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
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
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
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
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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Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Glory God Himself
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View

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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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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