Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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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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.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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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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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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