Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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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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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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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.
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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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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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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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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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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