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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

Jonathan Edwards

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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
Liberty
True
Power
Constrained
Consists
Ought

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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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To live with all my might, while I do live
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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