Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrust in God and ye need not fear.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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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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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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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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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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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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