Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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