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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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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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By 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.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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