To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
JONATHAN EDWARDSLove is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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