The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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