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.
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, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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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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As 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.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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