Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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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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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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