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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian's love must be universal! (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is. View quote
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. View quote
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Trust in God and ye need not fear. View quote
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this. View quote
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity. View quote
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good. View quote
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. View quote
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers. View quote
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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. View quote
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. View quote
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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. View quote
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. View quote
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation. View quote
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness. View quote
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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. View quote
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. View quote
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness. View quote
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God. View quote
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
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? View quote
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. View quote
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake. View quote
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The material universe exists only in the mind. View quote
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