Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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