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"50 Jonathan Edwards Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 October 1703. Died: 22 March 1758 | Theologian | Philosopher |

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

Heart Trusting Christ Afraid
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Truth Agreement Ideas God
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Dwell God Neglect Forsake
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The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.

Heart Dead Sin Affections
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Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation

Faith Gospel Christ Foundation
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Unconverted Men Walk over Hell
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
Prayer Expression Faith Life
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Godliness Easily Words Actions
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Lord Eternity Eyeballs
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Contribute Salvation Sin
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Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.

Nothing Christian Devil's Humility
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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.

Purpose Life Passion Glory
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Resolution Live God
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Knowledge Affection Business Religion
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Knowledge Obtain God Important
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Resolved Live Wish Die
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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.

Grow Knowledge Applause Souls
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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.

Love Hatred Contrary Delight
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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Defects Conceive Children Understanding
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

Study Scriptures Grow Knowledge
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.. it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...

God Pleases Enemies Hell
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The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!

Lord Religion Prevail Earth
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Greatest concern is not for your health, or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul.

Concern Health Welfare Soul
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Our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.

Redeemer Wonderful Love Witnessed
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Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God’s glory.

Grieves Live God's glory
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Grace of God in bestowing this gift is most free. It was what God was under no obligation to bestow: he might have rejected fallen man, as he did the fallen angels.

Grace God Gift Obligation
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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.

Grace Glory Heart Future
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Holiness Pleasant Purity Soul
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When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

God Live Being Breath
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All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

Earthly desires Stream God Ocean
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We ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself
Limit God Himself
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Heaven God Infinitely Pleasant
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O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world

God Pleasures Delights World
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My soul longs to feel itself more of a pilgrim and stranger here below; that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father’s house.

Souls Stranger Lonely Father's
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

Faithful Christian Business Christ
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

God Mighty People Praying
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

Enjoyment God Happiness Souls
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Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
Nature God's Greatest Evangelist
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Prayerless Life God World
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

Christ Needs
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

Know Nothing Truly
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

Kingdom God Business Christian
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Sin Act Treason God
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Christ Act Walk
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Envy Prosperity Happiness People
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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.

Christ World Wisdom Mind
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

View Humility Essential Christianity
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Christian Family Church
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Grace Glory Perfected
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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good
Love Virtue Disposes Good
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Jonathan Edwards Quotes & Sayings