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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.
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Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.
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No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
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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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The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God and to direct all my forces against it.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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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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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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