The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAs 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There 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!
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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