Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTeachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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