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.
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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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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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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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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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