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To live with all my might, while I do live

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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
Live
Might

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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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