Attributes Quote by Jonathan Edwards

“A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.”

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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;…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so…

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A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live…

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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

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God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable…

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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

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“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

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A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines…

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I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

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