Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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 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, 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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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