Jonathan Edwards on agreement
Jonathan Edwards116 quotes“Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.”
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It 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards By 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards 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.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.
Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.
Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
Ben OkriBen Okri The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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