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In 1727, he married Sarah Pierrepont. Their success as parents was revealed in a study done in 1900, showing their descendants included: a dean of a prestigious law school, 1 Vice-President of the United States; 1 comptroller of the U.S. Treasury; 3 U.S. Senators, 3 governors, 3 mayors of large cities, 13 college presidents, 30 judges, 65 professors, 80 public office holders, 100 lawyers, and nearly 100 missionaries.452

Jonathan Edwards

But Edwards insists that true virtue can only arise out of a heart which has been spiritually transformed so that it sees God, and seeks his will and the public good rather than private interests.

Richard Lovelace

5    Earthly things need to be ignored and despised by those of heavenly descent.

Jonathan Edwards

“Christians, a Royal Priesthood” sermon (1744)

Jonathan Edwards

In 1934, Reinhold Niebuhr wrote The Serenity Prayer:

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.3489

Reinhold Niebuhr

The minds of Christians ought still to have their calm and serenity maintained, whatever injuries they suffer.

Jonathan Edwards

10553 Practice the art of aloneness and you will discover the treasure of tranquility. Develop the art of solitude and you will unearth the gift of serenity.

William Arthur

Both worry and serenity come, not from circumstances, but from the heart.

William Barclay

Joy is not mere excitement, not mere noise, but serenity of spirit that overcomes circumstance.

Archibald Thomas Robertson

Until you have peace with God, you will never experience inner serenity.

Charles Stanley

Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope.

Charles Spurgeon

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man’s best self. My Own Personal Holdfast, Volume 35, Sermon #2069 - Micah 7:7

Charles Spurgeon

5914 Hope in the Lord, but exert yourself.

Anonymous

Those who understand God’s sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.

R. C. Sproul

Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death; thinking what are they in comparison to the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

Martin Luther

10936 You rarely hear a man who has been through the real agony of suffering who says he disbelieves in God; it is the one who watches others going through suffering who says he disbelieves in God.

Oswald Chambers

When a man suffers himself, it is called misery; when he suffers in the suffering of another, it is called pity.

Augustine of Hippo

Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer.

Charles Spurgeon

Richard Baxter, “suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”

D. A. Carson