If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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