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.
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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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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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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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