True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTo go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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True 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.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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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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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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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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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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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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