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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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