Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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