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.
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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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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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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