Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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 happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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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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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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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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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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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.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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.
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