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
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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