Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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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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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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