You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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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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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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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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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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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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