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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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 smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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