Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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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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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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