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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I 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.
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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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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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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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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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