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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.

Jonathan Edwards

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Anxiety Calm Mindset Nature Quiet
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
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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Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Delight Hate Love Rise
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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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Difference Judgement Sweet
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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Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
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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Break God Healing Himself Misery Peace Wound
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth

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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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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