True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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 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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to 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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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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