He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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