Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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 cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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