The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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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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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