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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

It is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell ...

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.

In the person of Christ do meet together infinite majesty and transcendent meekness. These

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

Our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;

What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive,

In order to act freely, we must act by chance, which is absurd, and what no man will dare to avow.

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

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?

Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:

Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early.

On his world record triple jump - It's only jumping into a sandpit.

Sunshine go away today, I don't feel much like dancing.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

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.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

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.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

[the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.

We ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself.

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

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

None that will come to Christ, let his condition be what it will, need to fear but that Christ will provide a place suitable for him in heaven.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Greatest concern is not for your health, or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul. Though

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.

Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God's glory.

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

If get a jump right, there's a feeling of flying.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

Whatever is absolutely valuable in itself and is also capable of being sought and obtained by God is his ultimate end in creating the world.

The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.