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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSConsider 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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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