Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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 has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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