Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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