Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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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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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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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