The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSJesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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