The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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