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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIt is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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