From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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 the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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