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.
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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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