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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod’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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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