I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
JONATHAN EDWARDSJesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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