He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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