Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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