The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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