Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTemples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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’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.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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