The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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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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There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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If 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.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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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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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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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 smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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