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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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?
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious 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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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