A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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