God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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