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.
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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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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