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• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Church, Littles

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, David Brainerd (1830). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...”, p.648

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

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Needs, Christ

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830). “Seventeen occasional sermons. Miscellaneous observations”, p.357

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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.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Passion, Two, Joy

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• They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Sovereign, Mercy

  Jonathan Edwards (2005). “Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.267, Hendrickson Publishers

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• It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Mean, Ezekiel

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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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• Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Agreement, Ideas, Religion

  Jonathan Edwards (2009). “The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Broken, Giving

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, p.9, Reformation Heritage Books

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• In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Children, Eye, Blood

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830). “treatise concerning religious affections. Justification by faith alone. Pressing into the kingdom of God. Ruth's resolution. Justice of God in the damnation of sinners. The excellency of Jesus Christ”, p.152

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• If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Long, Christ, Walks

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  Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Hell, Natural

  Jonathan Edwards a. M., Jonathan Edwards (2012). “Jonathan Edwards in the Pulpit: Famous Sermons”, p.147, Curiosmith

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• All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Mean, Mind

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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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• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  God, Sin, Holy

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• We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Humility, Views, Essentials

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.153, David C Cook

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• Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Humility, Evil

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

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• The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

  Jonathan Edwards

  Doors, Christ, Mercy

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• A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lovely, Delight, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “The Religious Affections”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Redemption, Steps, Dependent

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

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• Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Way, My Own

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830). “treatise concerning religious affections. Justification by faith alone. Pressing into the kingdom of God. Ruth's resolution. Justice of God in the damnation of sinners. The excellency of Jesus Christ”, p.71

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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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• Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Years, Done, Months

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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