The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBeing 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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