The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSLove is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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 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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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