Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGodliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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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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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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