Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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