Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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 examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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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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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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