The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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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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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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