The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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