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 EDWARDSGod is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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