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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
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East Windsor
Connecticut
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them the flames do now rage and glow.
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Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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