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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Revenge Solution
I 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Heaven Spirit Wait World
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action God Influence Life Spirit
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith God Right Sin
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Known Live Man Presence Sin
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Anxiety Calm Mindset Nature Quiet
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Glory God Himself
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Himself Need Religious
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Change Confession Nature Production Religious True
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Charm Holy Soul

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

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