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.
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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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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