Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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