Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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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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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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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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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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.
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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