The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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