Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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