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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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