Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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 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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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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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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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