Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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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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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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