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

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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of t...more

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

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If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and atte...more

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But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the under...more

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But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that will melt and humble the h...more

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A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their h...more

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But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a hi...more

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But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affectio...more