I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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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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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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