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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Jonathan Edwards

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
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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Care Examination Force God Love
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
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
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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God Ourselves Power Step
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
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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Act Death God Myself
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
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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Faith Foundation God Improvement Obedience Purity Pursuit Religion
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible
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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God Prayer Privacy Way Work
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
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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Evil Exception Goodness Reality Talk
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Faith God Nature Power
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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God Hell Man Moments Pleasure
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Beautiful Holy Important World
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
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
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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God Live Prayer World
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

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