Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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