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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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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.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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