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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
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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Day Himself Judgement People
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Faith God Right Sin
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
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Best Each Other Expression Music Perfection Way
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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Beginning God Himself Holy Love True
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
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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Action God Influence Life Spirit
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Beautiful Blessing Delight God Himself Rise Spiritual
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
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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God Important Knowledge Ourselves
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick

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