Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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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 devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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