Nothing sets a person so much out of the devils reach as humility.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.Jonathan Edwards
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Jonathan Edwards
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
Jonathan Edwards
Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell I tell
Jonathan Edwards
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'
Jonathan Edwards
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Jonathan Edwards
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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