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 EDWARDSTrue salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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