There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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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.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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