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Jonathan Edwards116 quotes“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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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