Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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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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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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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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