By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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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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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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