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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.
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
Clergyman
Philosopher
Theologian
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East Windsor
Connecticut
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Two
Life
Glory
Joy
Passion
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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 ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
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All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness
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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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