If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHoliness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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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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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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