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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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 pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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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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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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