He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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