The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSHow can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS