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
“tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ,… — 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
If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the… — 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
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in… — 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
“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
“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
“(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
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Orpah and Ruth; who will represent to us two sorts of professors of religion: Orpah, that sort that indeed make a fair… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge, in studies of natural things; but this is nothing to that joy… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — 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
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)
