God’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 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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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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 end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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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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