Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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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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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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