You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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