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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.

Jonathan Edwards

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Act God Path Religious Walk Yourself
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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God Important Knowledge Ourselves
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
I 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Live Lose Moments Myself Possible
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Action Easy God Word
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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God Hell Man Moments Pleasure
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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God Sin Small Treason
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Devil Humility Person Reach
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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Delight Hate Love Rise
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
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?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creation Display End Glorify Himself

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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