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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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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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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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