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The material universe exists only in the mind.

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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
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Materials
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Universe
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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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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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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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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