The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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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.
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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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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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