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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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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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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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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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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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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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