A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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 to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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