Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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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 is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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I 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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