The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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 happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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