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
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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