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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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