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.
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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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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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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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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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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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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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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