We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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