He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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