Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
JONATHAN EDWARDSTo go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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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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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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