The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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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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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 enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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