Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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 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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