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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
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East Windsor
Connecticut
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The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
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Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.
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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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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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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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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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