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 EDWARDSHe who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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There 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.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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