Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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