The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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.
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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
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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?
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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