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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.

Jonathan Edwards

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Ground Preparation Trust Way Yourself
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Happiness Misery Ourselves Purchase Satisfaction
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith God Right Sin
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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God Greatness Spirit
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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Act Death God Myself
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Heaven Spirit Wait World
Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Revenge Solution
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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Agreement Love People Time Universe
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time

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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