Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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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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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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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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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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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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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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