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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

Jonathan Edwards

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Desire Easy Expectation Live World
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Agree Grace Humble Resolution Sensible
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Delight Humility World
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Mercy Stand Stay
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Known Live Man Presence Sin
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith God Nature Power
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Accident Business Faith Fight Himself Live Religious True
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Assurance Exam
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Beautiful Blessing Delight God Himself Rise Spiritual
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Expectation Forever God Himself
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Afraid Life Myself

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