Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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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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