The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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True weirdness 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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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