Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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