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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Resolved, 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.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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