How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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 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.
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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 enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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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.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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