Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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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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