Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
JONATHAN EDWARDSConsider 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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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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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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