Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDSReligion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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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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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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You 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.
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