You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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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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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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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