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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrust in God and ye need not fear.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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