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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Jonathan Edwards

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Delight Humility World
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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Age Myself Old Person Thinking
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Delight Hate Love Rise
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Courage Live Myself
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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God Important Knowledge Ourselves
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Faith Foundation God Improvement Obedience Purity Pursuit Religion
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose

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