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 EDWARDSThe 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 EDWARDSResolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSChrist is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDSOne requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
JONATHAN EDWARDSOf all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrust in God and ye need not fear.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSurely 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAlmost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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