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• The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Inward, Delight

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.69

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• Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

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  Jesus, People, Wicked

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Time, Use, Might

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• The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Godly

  Jonathan Edwards, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1997). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Sermons and discourses, 1723-1729”

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• Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Self, Followers

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• Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

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  Light, Perfection, Excellence

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.125

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• Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Wish, Done, Dies

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ; I. Nature of the Affections, and Their Importance in Religion ; II. Showing what are No Certain Signs that Religious Affections are Gracious, Or that They are Not ; III. Showing what are Distinguishing Signs of Truly Gracious and Holy Affections”, p.10

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• Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.

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  Spring, Men, Hatred

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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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  Sweet, Differences, Honey

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.14

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• Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

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  Christian, Real, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

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  Way, Moments, Profitable

  Jonathan Edwards (1852). “The Works ...”, p.4

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• Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

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  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Jonathan Edwards (1812). “A treatise concerning religious affections”, p.87

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• The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Blow, Wind

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• A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Justified, Christ, Righteousness

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• He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Affection, Speculation, Engaged

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.238

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• The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Devil, Saving

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.62

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• Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

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  Action, Godliness

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.374

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• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

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  Hypocrite, Men, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards (1844). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.52

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• I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Causes

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.15

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• The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

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  Glorifying God, Might, Glory

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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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  Inspiring, Music, Beautiful

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.619

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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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  Gratitude, Greatness, Discovery

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• I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite . . . When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Views, Looks

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1834). “Works”, p.90

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• Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

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  Unlimited, Certain

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - II”, Lulu.com

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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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  Blessing, Order, Church

  Jonathan Edwards (2015). “Jonathan Edwards on Revival”, p.303, Ravenio Books

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