There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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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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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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.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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