There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Temples 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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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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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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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