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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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