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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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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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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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