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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Jonathan Edwards

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Cover Hell Man Walk
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Beautiful Blessing Delight God Himself Rise Spiritual
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Eyes Forever
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
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
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
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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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Glory God Himself
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Care Examination Force God Love
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
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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Act Death God Myself
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View

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