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• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Glory

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• The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Peace, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume II - I”, Lulu.com

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• Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, People, Envy

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Sin, Gods Will

  Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.384, Hendrickson Publishers

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Indifference, Foe

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.171, David C Cook

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• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Expression, Breathing

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.75

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  People, Decision, Grace

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• 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 Edwards

  Lying, Heart, Hypocrisy

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.29, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Trust in God and ye need not fear.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Needs, Trust In God

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

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• Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Love Is, And Love, Virtue

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• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heaven, Accommodations, Enjoy

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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• If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Way, Christ, Vain

  Jonathan Edwards (1793). “History of Redemption, on a Plan Entirely Original: Exhibiting the Gradual Discovery and Accomplishment of the Divine Purposes in the Salvation of Man, Including a Comprehensive View of Church History and the Fulfilment of Scripture Prophecies”, p.354

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• Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Life, Inspiring, Lasts

  Jonathan Edwards (2007). “Life and Diary of David Brainerd”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Proud, Absurdity

  Jonathan Edwards (1824). “The Treatise on Religious Affections”, p.234

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• If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Revenge, Doe, Denial

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• You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Hands, Treasure, Littles

  Jonathan Edwards (1858). “The works of President Edwards in four volumes: a reprint of the Worcester edition with valuable additions and a copious general index, to which, for the first time, has been added, at great expense, a complete index of scripture texts”, p.11

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• Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Redemption

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Real, Cures

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• Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Rotten, Covering

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.8

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• We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Jesus, Giving, Christ

  Jonathan Edwards (1852). “The Works ...”, p.172

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended”, p.80

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• The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spring, Heart, Principles

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.265

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Children, Light

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830). “Narrative of surprising conversions. Thoughts on the revival in 1740. Qualifications for communion. Reply to Williams”, p.78

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• Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Waiting, Heaven

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.160, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Important, World, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.284

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