Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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