Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSLord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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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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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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 pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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