Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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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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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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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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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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