The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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