True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
JONATHAN EDWARDSNothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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True 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.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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