Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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