Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere 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!
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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