Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSurely 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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