A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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