True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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