The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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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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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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