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The 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.

Jonathan Edwards

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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Age Myself Old Person Thinking
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
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
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Care Examination Force God Love
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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God Live Prayer World
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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God Known Live Man Presence Sin
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Eyes Forever
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason

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