Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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