The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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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 who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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