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 EDWARDSThe smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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