The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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