The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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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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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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