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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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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.
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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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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith its action, works its temper, holiness its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
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Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.
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