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.
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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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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