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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.

Jonathan Edwards

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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Education Effect Family Grace Order Prosperity
Resolved, 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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Finding Growth Knowledge Scripture
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Faith Foundation God Improvement Obedience Purity Pursuit Religion
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Glory God Himself
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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Act Death God Myself
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
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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God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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God Prayer Privacy Way Work
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
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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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering

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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