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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.

Jonathan Edwards

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Expectation Forever God Himself
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Exercise Faith God Man Trust
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Greatness Nature
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Mercy Stand Stay
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Live Lose Moments Myself Possible
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Glory God Himself
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Best Each Other Expression Music Perfection Way
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Life Mindset Myself Proposition
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Heaven Natural Ourselves Travel Way
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Decision Fruit God Grace People Salvation

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