Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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 Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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