Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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