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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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