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 EDWARDSEvery Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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