You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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