The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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The 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.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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