Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAs God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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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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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 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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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![Jonathan Edwards Quote - As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus.jpg)
![Jonathan Edwards Quote - As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus.jpg)
![Jonathan Edwards Quote - As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus.jpg)
![Jonathan Edwards Quote - As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus.jpg)

