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.
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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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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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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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