The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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