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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards
Christian, Humility, Evil
Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

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.

Jonathan Edwards
Ideas, Evil, Imagination

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Jonathan Edwards
Real, Evil, Speak
Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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