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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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 seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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