Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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