How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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