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 EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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 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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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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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