Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue 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.
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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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