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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere 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!
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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