There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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