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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
Time
Improve
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Moments
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Resolved
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Profitable

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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
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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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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.
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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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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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To live with all my might, while I do live
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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