The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power 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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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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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