Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSMen 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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