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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Jonathan Edwards

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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Follow God Love Man Stand
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Design God Happiness Unknown
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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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Act Death God Myself
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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God Prayer Privacy Way Work
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Faith God Nature Power
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Faith Foundation God Improvement Obedience Purity Pursuit Religion
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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Action God Influence Life Spirit
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Creation Display End Glorify Himself

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