Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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