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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Jonathan Edwards

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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Sin Small Treason
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Best Each Other Expression Music Perfection Way
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Afraid Life Myself
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Eyes Forever
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Himself Known True
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Act Death God Myself
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creature God Happiness
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beginning Glory Grace Perfection
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Known Live Man Presence Sin
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit

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