Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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