There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, 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.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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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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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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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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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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