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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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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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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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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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