I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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 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.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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