Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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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.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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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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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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