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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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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit the one pays our debt, and so satisfies the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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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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