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

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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
Clergyman
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
East Windsor
Connecticut
Never
Profitable
Time
Improve
Possibly
Lose
Loses
Moment
Moments
Way
Resolved

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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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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.
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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.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
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No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
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