Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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 have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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