He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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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.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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