Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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 happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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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 a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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