To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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 seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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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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