When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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