Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGodliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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.
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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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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.
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