"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way……" — Jonathan Edwards
"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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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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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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