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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Jonathan Edwards

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beginning Glory Grace Perfection
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
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
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
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
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
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Beginning God Himself Holy Love True
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
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer

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