If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Consider 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.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Being 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.
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