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A 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.

Jonathan Edwards

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Eyes Forever
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
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

Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
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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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Angry Human Motion Suffering
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
A 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beginning God Himself Holy Love 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.
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Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
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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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
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
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Devil Humility Person Reach

A 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.

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