Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDSOne requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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