The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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