From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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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.
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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.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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