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.
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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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 contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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