Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
-
-
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDS