Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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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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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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