True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDSFind preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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 devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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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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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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