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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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