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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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No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
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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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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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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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