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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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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.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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