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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Jonathan Edwards

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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
Clergyman
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
East Windsor
Connecticut
Life
Breathing
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Prayer
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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