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.
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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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