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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Jonathan Edwards

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action God Influence Life Spirit
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Act Death God Myself
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 EDWARDS

Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Better End Possible Respect Time
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Care Examination Force God Love
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Fire Flame God Hot Preparation
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Bold Himself Offend Transcendence True
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Known Live Man Presence Sin
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Himself People Prayer
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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Better True Weird World
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Change Confession Nature Production Religious True

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