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?
JONATHAN EDWARDSAlmost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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The 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.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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