Jonathan Edwards Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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.
[the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...
They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.
All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.
None that will come to Christ, let his condition be what it will, need to fear but that Christ will provide a place suitable for him in heaven.
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.
Whatever is absolutely valuable in itself and is also capable of being sought and obtained by God is his ultimate end in creating the world.
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.