We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod’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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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 to do anything out of revenge.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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