A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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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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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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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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