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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards
Age: 54 †
Born: 1703
Born: October 5
Died: 1758
Died: March 22
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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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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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