Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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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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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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