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• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rejoice, Creatures, Exalted

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.101

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• The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.270

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• I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly
  descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to
  uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rocks, Healthy, Spiders

  Jonathan Edwards (2012). “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spirit, Great Work, Supplication

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Exercise, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards “The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved”, Lulu.com

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• So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Ideas, Evil, Imagination

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• Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Giving, Grace, Sovereign

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.854

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• All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Grace, Together

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.131, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sight, World, Affliction

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• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Mean, Successful

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

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• Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.

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  Powerful, Selfish, Fall

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• If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Religious, Heart, Pride

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Eugene Howard (1949). “David Brainerd: his life and diary”

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• Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Grace, Inheritance

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “The Religious Affections”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Suffering, Irrational

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.10

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• We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rain, Son, Sky

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• Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Wicked, Hell

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.7

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• Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Love Is, Soul, Ingredients

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.7, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

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  Fire, Wrath, Spiders

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (sermon), Enfield, Conn., 8 July 1741

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• That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Letting Go, Fall, Feet

  Jonathan Edwards a. M., Jonathan Edwards (2012). “Jonathan Edwards in the Pulpit: Famous Sermons”, p.144, Curiosmith

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• Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Sake, Helping

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.68

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Gratitude, Views, Heaven

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.87

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• Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.161

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• Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Soul, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards (1843). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.21

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