Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAlmost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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