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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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If 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.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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