I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTo go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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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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The 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.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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