The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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