One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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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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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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