Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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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