Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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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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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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 henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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