Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTruth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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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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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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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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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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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in 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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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