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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Temples have their images and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness
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When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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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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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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