There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrust in God and ye need not fear.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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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.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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