I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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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 enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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