We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSFrom 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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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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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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 door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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