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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.

Jonathan Edwards

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Important Knowledge Ourselves
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
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
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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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
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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Follow God Love Man Stand
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Business Heart Life Love Principle
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
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
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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Education Effect Family Grace Order Prosperity
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Life Mindset Myself Proposition
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
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Heaven Spirit Wait World
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit

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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