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• When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Blessing, Order, Church

  Jonathan Edwards (2015). “Jonathan Edwards on Revival”, p.303, Ravenio Books

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• Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Sake, Helping

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.68

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• The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Inspiring, Music, Beautiful

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.619

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• The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.270

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• I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.

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  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

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  Gratitude, Greatness, Discovery

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• Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

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  Christian, Inspiration, May

  Jonathan Edwards (1852). “The Works ...”, p.4

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• Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.

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  Christian, Years, Wish

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• All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

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  Humility, Grace, Together

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.131, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

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  Ideas, Evil, Imagination

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• I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Causes

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.15

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• The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

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  Glorifying God, Might, Glory

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• Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

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  Love Is, Soul, Ingredients

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.7, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

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  Giving, Grace, Sovereign

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.854

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• true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

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  Sight, World, Affliction

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• Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Grace, Inheritance

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “The Religious Affections”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.

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  Heart, Exercise, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards “The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved”, Lulu.com

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• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

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  Christian, Mean, Successful

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

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• All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.

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  Christian, Heart, Exercise

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.22, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

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  Leader, Movement, Requirements

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• If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

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  Religious, Heart, Pride

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Eugene Howard (1949). “David Brainerd: his life and diary”

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• Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

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  Suffering, Irrational

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.10

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• We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.

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  Rain, Son, Sky

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• The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Fire, Wrath, Spiders

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (sermon), Enfield, Conn., 8 July 1741

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• Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.

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  Powerful, Selfish, Fall

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