Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved 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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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