Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSConsider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
-
-
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
You 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
JONATHAN EDWARDS