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.
Jonathan EdwardsHow can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
Jonathan EdwardsResolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
Jonathan EdwardsSo that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.
Jonathan Edwards