Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThose 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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 true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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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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