We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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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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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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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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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