The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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