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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.

Jonathan Edwards

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Intend Learning Teacher
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Day Himself Judgement People
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Heart Life Love Principle
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Prayer Privacy Way Work
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Fear God Need Trust Yourself
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Death Live Myself
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Believe Forever God Price Sacrifice
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Ourselves Power Step
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Age Myself Old Person Thinking

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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