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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

Jonathan Edwards

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
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
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
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
True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Better True Weird World
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
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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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
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
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Breathe Expression Life Natural Prayer
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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Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible
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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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

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