Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHoliness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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 Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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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