I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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 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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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