We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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 God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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