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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Jonathan Edwards

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
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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Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Beautiful Blessing Delight God Himself Rise Spiritual
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend Learning Teacher
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Friendship Glory God Intelligence Prayer Sincere
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God Himself Need Religious
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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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Life Mindset Myself Proposition
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Business Heart Life Love Principle
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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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
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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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason

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