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• Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Answers, Confession

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1834). “Works”, p.63

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• That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Perfect, Mind, Void

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.706

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• Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Influence, Creation

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Giving, Matter, Lasts

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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