I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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 smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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