Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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