We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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