Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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