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 EDWARDSThe material universe exists only in the mind.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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