Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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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 material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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