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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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The material universe exists only in 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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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.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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