We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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