The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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