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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

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
Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
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
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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Care Examination Force God Love
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
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Faith God Right Sin
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Glory God Himself
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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God Live Myself Resolution Willing
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
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
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
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Courage Live Myself
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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God Mercy Stand Stay
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Fear God Need Trust Yourself
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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Future Glory Grace Inheritance Morning
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

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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