Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThose 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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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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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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