Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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 are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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