When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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