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.
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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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