Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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