Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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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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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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