The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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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.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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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.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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