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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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