Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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