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Jonathan Edwards Quotes
«Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Prayer
| Keywords:
breathe in, breathe out, breathing, breathings, breathing in, breathing out, expression, natural, naturals, prayer
«Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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resolution
«The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Happiness
| Keywords:
exalted, magnified, magnifies, magnifying, rejoicing
«Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it.»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Belief,
Friendship,
God,
Prayer
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apparently, disposes, incline, infinitely, strongly
«To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Heaven
| Keywords:
accommodation, accommodations, Go To Heaven, infinitely, pleasant
«True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Liberty
| Keywords:
constrain, constrained, constraining, constrains
«To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low»
«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'»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Beauty,
God
| Keywords:
As god, beams, brightness, conformity, delights, derivation, derivations, holiness, jewel, participation