Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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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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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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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.
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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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