Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
JONATHAN EDWARDSFamily 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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