You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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