Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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