How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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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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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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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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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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