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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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