Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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