Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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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.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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