To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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