Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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