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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
Clergyman
Philosopher
Theologian
Writer
East Windsor
Connecticut
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Evidence
Practice
Christian
True
Every
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Godliness

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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.
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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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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
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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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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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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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