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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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 henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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