To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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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 has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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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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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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