Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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