True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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