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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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There 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!
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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