"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must……" — Jonathan Edwards
"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."
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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 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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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More Ascending Quotes
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
— Raymond Queneau
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the…
— Horace Mann
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It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any…
— Ken Wilber
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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