A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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By 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.
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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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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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