One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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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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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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