Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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