Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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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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 material universe exists only in the mind.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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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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