There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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