The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrust in God and ye need not fear.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Surely 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.
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