A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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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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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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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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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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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