We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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