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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.

Jonathan Edwards

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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Break God Healing Himself Misery Peace Wound
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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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
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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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Education Effect Family Grace Order Prosperity
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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Best Each Other Expression Music Perfection Way
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Heaven Spirit Wait World
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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Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Beginning God Himself Holy Love True
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Day Himself Judgement People
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet
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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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
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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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
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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Business Heart Life Love Principle
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.
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Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
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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Better End Possible Respect Time

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