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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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