We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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