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 EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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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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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