God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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.
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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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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.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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