He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy 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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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in 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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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