Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSeek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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