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What tranquillity will there be in heaven! Who can express the fullness and blessedness of this peace! What a calm is this! How sweet and holy and joyous! What a haven of rest to enter, after having passed through the storms and tempests of this world, in which pride and selfishness and envy and malice and scorn and contempt and contention and vice are as waves of a restless ocean, always rolling, and often dashed about in violence and fury! What a Canaan of rest to come to, after going through this waste and howling wilderness, full of snares and pitfalls and poisonous serpents, where no rest could be found. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. View quote
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain. View quote
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. View quote
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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. View quote
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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. View quote
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. View quote
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying. View quote
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. View quote
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Nature is God's greatest evangelist. View quote
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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. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life. View quote
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world. View quote
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more. View quote
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. View quote
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God. View quote
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He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has. View quote
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs. View quote
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But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. View quote
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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. View quote
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked. View quote
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him. View quote
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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.' View quote
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due. View quote
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