Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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