Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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

Jonathan Edwards
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Jonathan Edwards
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite... When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.

Jonathan Edwards
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Jonathan Edwards
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Jonathan Edwards
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

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

Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Jonathan Edwards
All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.

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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

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

Jonathan Edwards
Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

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

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

Jonathan Edwards
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
But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.

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

Jonathan Edwards
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Jonathan Edwards
There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.

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

Jonathan Edwards
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Jonathan Edwards
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

Jonathan Edwards
You that trust in your own righteousness, arrogate to yourselves the honor of the greatest thing that even God Himself ever did. You seem not only sufficient to perform Divine works, but such is your pride and vanity, that you are not content without taking upon you to do the very greatest work that ever God Himself wrought. God's works of providence are greater than those of creation. To take on yourself to work out redemption, is a greater thing than if you had taken it upon you to create a world.

Jonathan Edwards
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Jonathan Edwards
Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.

Jonathan Edwards
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonathan Edwards
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

Jonathan Edwards