God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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.
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