Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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