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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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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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You 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.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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