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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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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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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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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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