The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
JONATHAN EDWARDS
Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
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Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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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Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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