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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.

Jonathan Edwards

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Existence Material Mindset Universe
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?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creation Display End Glorify Himself
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Delight Humility World
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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God Mercy Stand Stay
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Himself People Prayer
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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God Hell Man Moments Pleasure

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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