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.
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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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