Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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