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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
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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To live with all my might, while I do live
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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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When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
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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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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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Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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