Religion Quotes by Jonathan Edwards

“When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.”

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Jonathan Edwards

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Jonathan Edwards

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

— Jonathan Edwards

“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.”

— Jonathan Edwards

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

— Jonathan Edwards

“Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.”

— Jonathan Edwards

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him…

— Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what…

— Jonathan Edwards

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a…

— Jonathan Edwards

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Humility is a great ingredient of true faith: he that truly receives redemption, receives it as a little child: Mark x. 15,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“If you should happen to settle a minister who knows nothing truly of Christ and the way of salvation by him, nothing…

— Jonathan Edwards

“If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He…

— Jonathan Edwards

“° I have sought the good, and not the hurt of our young people. I have desired their truest honor and happiness,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language…

— Jonathan Edwards

“If the evidence of the gospel depended only on history, and such reasonings as learned men only are capable of, it would…

— Jonathan Edwards

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited…

— Jonathan Edwards

“It is of vast consequence how ministers discharge their office, and conduct themselves towards their people in the work of the ministry,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Let me therefore earnestly exhort you, as you would seek your own future good hereafter, to watch against a contentious spirit.° If…

— Jonathan Edwards

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping…

— Jonathan Edwards

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Ministers and their people, while their relation continues, often meet together in this world. They are wont to meet from Sabbath to…

— Jonathan Edwards

“When God is worshipped in them in spirit and truth, they become the outworks of heaven and as it were its gates.…

— Jonathan Edwards

“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

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection…

— Jonathan Edwards

“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of…

— Jonathan Edwards

“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight…

— Jonathan Edwards

“This spiritual light is not the suggesting of any new truths or propositions not contained in the word of God. This suggesting…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But…

— Jonathan Edwards

“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our…

— Jonathan Edwards

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

— Jonathan Edwards

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

— Jonathan Edwards

“... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...”

— Jonathan Edwards

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

— Jonathan Edwards

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

— Jonathan Edwards

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

— Jonathan Edwards

“Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;”

— Jonathan Edwards