He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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