We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
JONATHAN EDWARDSFind preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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