God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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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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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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 seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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