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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

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
Ought
Church
Family
Christian
Littles
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Every

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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite . . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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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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The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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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The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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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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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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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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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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