Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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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, never to do anything out of revenge.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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