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The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite . . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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To live with all my might, while I do live
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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