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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

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
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Christianity
Religion
Truth
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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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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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Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Christ is the true light of the world it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.
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If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God of his dependence on Him of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.
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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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To live with all my might, while I do live
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True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is found to praise and honour and glory.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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