Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of 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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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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