Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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