The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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 is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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