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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Death Live Myself
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
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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Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
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
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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Better True Weird World
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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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Bold Himself Offend Transcendence True
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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God Live Myself Resolution Willing
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
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
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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Appearance Charm Holy Soul
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Better End Possible Respect Time

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