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.
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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I 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.
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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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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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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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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 family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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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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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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