The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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