The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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