Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEnvy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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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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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