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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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