The material universe exists only in the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSOf all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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