God Quote by Jonathan Edwards

“A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.”

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The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream…

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“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there, is as a note in some concert of delightful music, that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all…

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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom…

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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

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“Let the main thing that we prize in God’s house be, not the outward ornaments of it, or a high seat in it, but…

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“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a high degree. And the more grace he has, and the more this is opened to view, the greater sense he has of the infinite excellency and glory of the divine…

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“The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated with its thought and phraseology. And as he is intimately acquainted with it in all its parts, so he is continually quoting it and constantly surprising us with fresh discoveries, in novel collocations, of its variety,…

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“Edwards sought to impose a new test of qualification. He required, namely, that the candidate for full communion should give evidence of being converted,…

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“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in…

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“Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;”

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“Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.”

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