Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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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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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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.
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True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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