Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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