Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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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, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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