Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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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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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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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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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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