Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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 devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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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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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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