He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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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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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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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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