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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian When she’s drenched in agony and soaked in pain, her smile holds the art this world is dying to learn.
Ananya BhaskarAnanya Bhaskar To have him is to hold the moon and no longer tremble.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There’s more of a chance then that they’ll survive.
Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich Why is it so difficult to simply be, to look around the room and just be free; why do I feel a need to add something to me, when I’m the consciousness that holds every key.
Lucy Mary BallLucy Mary Ball When you hold my hand and it feels like a fresh dream.
W. ScottW. Scott Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds.
Russell WestbrookRussell Westbrook There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.
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