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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSLord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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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 that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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.
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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 smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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