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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBeing sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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