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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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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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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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