Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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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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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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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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