He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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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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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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