Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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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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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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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 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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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