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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.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Human Limitation
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
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Mercy Stand Stay
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beginning God Himself Holy Love True
As 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Live Prayer World
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Design God Happiness Unknown
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Holy Important World
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Afraid Life Myself
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Exercise Faith God Man Trust
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Cover Hell Man Walk
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
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 EDWARDS

Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself

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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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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