I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAssurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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