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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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