Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEnvy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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