Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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By 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.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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