The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
JONATHAN EDWARDSEvery Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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