Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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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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