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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWe must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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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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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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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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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 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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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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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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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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