One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
Jonathan EdwardsResolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
Jonathan EdwardsIf there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.
Jonathan EdwardsResolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.
Jonathan EdwardsJesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
Jonathan EdwardsChrist is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.
Jonathan Edwards