Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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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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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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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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