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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTemples 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSincere 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBeing sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGodliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSChrist is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS