“When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Our having all of God shows the fulness of his power and grace: our having all through him shows the fulness of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the “river of the water of life,” that runs,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“In every act of the will whatsoever, the soul either likes or dislikes, is either inclined or disinclined to what is in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“(however you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises.… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Their hearts shall be full of love. That which was in the heart on earth as but a grain of mustard-seed, shall… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The heart of Christ, the great Head of all the saints, is more full of love than the heart of any saint… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“Let the main thing that we prize in God’s house be, not the outward ornaments of it, or a high seat in it, but… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infinite reason there is that… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“Edwards sought to impose a new test of qualification. He required, namely, that the candidate for full communion should give evidence of being converted,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
“And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has flung the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share
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 Copy Share
![“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole…” quote by Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2fd/jonathan-edwards-770_affection_but-it-is-doubtless-true-and-evident-fro_82879.png)
