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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Jonathan Edwards

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
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
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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Afraid Life Myself
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
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
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Bold Himself Offend Transcendence True
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
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
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth
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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Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
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
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick

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