Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Holiness 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.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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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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