Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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