The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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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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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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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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