He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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