The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEnvy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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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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