Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical 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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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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