True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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 but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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 end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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.
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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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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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