The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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.
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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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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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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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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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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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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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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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