We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTo go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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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.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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