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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.
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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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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If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Christ is the true light of the world it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
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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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No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
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