Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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