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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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