The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSurely 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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