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Jonathan Edwards116 quotes“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.”
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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