I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrust in God and ye need not fear.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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 is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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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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