I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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