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Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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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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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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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The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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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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When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness
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No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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 seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
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