Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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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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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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.
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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