Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDSJesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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