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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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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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