If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit 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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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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