Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAs God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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