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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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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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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.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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