Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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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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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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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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