There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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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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.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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