Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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