Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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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
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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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