We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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