Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSurely 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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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