The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
JONATHAN EDWARDSChrist gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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 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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