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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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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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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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