The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSMen 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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