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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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