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.
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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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 God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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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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