You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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