Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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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 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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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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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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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