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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of 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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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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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 mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
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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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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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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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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Christ is the true light of the world it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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