Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
JONATHAN EDWARDSNothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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