There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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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 godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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By 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.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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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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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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