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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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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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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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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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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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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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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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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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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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