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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSNothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSReligion, 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThey 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
JONATHAN EDWARDSIntend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSpiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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