Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. — Jonathan Edwards Desire Copy Share Image
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. — Jonathan Edwards Animals Copy Share Image
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers. — Jonathan Edwards Believer Copy Share Image
If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, this rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as… — Jonathan Edwards Glory of god Copy Share Image
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world. — Jonathan Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...” — Jonathan Edwards Enemies Copy Share Image
“And each person of the Trinity is equally glorified in this work: there is an absolute dependence of the creature on every… — Jonathan Edwards Holy ghost Copy Share Image
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth,… — Jonathan Edwards Ideas Copy Share Image
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“It should be our firm and inflexible resolution in such a case that it shall be no parting, but that we will… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Prop. I. Heaven is God’s house. An house of public worship is an house where God’s people meet from time to time… — Jonathan Edwards Home Copy Share Image
“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 Bible Copy Share Image
“Thus there is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness… — Jonathan Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“now I saw it was so far from any goodness in me to own myself spiritually dead and destitute of all goodness… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Ministers and their people, while their relation continues, often meet together in this world. They are wont to meet from Sabbath to… — Jonathan Edwards Management Copy Share Image
“Be not high-minded because of thy privileges, but fear because of thy danger. The more thou hast committed unto thee, the more… — Jonathan Edwards Fear Copy Share Image
“The hope he had of seeing the blessed fruit of his labors and sufferings in the ministry, in their happiness and glory,… — Jonathan Edwards Corinthians Copy Share Image
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the… — Jonathan Edwards Christ Copy Share Image
“There shall be a glorious reward to faithful ministers: to those who have been successful: Dan. xii. 3, “And they that be… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“When God is here spoken of as hardening some of the children of men, it is not to be understood that God… — Jonathan Edwards Children Copy Share Image
“and about the same time an invitation from the Commissioners in Boston of the “Society in London for Propagating the Gospel in… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But… — Jonathan Edwards Christian humility Copy Share Image
“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be… — Jonathan Edwards False hope Copy Share Image
“This spiritual light is not the suggesting of any new truths or propositions not contained in the word of God. This suggesting… — Jonathan Edwards Another world Copy Share Image
“For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and… — Jonathan Edwards Abraham Copy Share Image
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us. — 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 Affection Copy Share Image
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness. — Jonathan Edwards Christian Copy Share Image
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action — Jonathan Edwards Action Copy Share Image
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what… — Jonathan Edwards Freedom Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. — Jonathan Edwards Enjoyment Copy Share Image
“Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.” — Jonathan Edwards Christian Copy Share Image
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity. — Jonathan Edwards Christianity Copy Share Image