He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in 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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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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