Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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 are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit 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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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 godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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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