The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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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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