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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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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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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.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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