"God is the highest good of the reasonable……" — Jonathan Edwards
"God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean."
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47 Quotes by Jonathan Edwards
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and…
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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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There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others…
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each…
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly,…
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the…
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All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the…
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
— Mark Twain
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful…
— Jean Piaget
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
— Ernst Haeckel
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By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal…
— Strom Thurmond
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We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to…
— Peter Corning
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
— William Merritt Chase
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact…
— George Washington
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
— Alan Furst
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