To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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