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.
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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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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