Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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