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.
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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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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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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