Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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