There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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