The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life — Jonathan Edwards Business Copy Share Image
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. — Jonathan Edwards God 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 Gratitude Copy Share Image
“[the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...” — Jonathan Edwards Hungry lion Copy Share Image
“Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.” — Jonathan Edwards Faith Copy Share Image
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is… — Jonathan Edwards Beautiful Copy Share Image
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. — Jonathan Edwards Christ Copy Share Image
“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 Confidence Copy Share Image
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words… — Jonathan Edwards Excellence Copy Share Image
“Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under the domination of sin than… — Jonathan Edwards Depravity Copy Share Image
There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his… — Jonathan Edwards Christian family 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 Action Copy Share Image
“Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the… — Jonathan Edwards Justice Copy Share Image
“Our cleaving to them, and having their God for our God and their people for our people, depends on our resolution and… — Jonathan Edwards Resolution 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 Affair Copy Share Image
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the… — Jonathan Edwards God Copy Share Image
“Christ condemns the Jews, that they did not know that he was the Messiah, and that his doctrine was true, from an… — Jonathan Edwards Judaism 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 Affection Copy Share Image
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“And babes are as capable of knowing these things as the wise and prudent; and they are often hid from these when… — Jonathan Edwards Wise men 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 Abba father Copy Share Image
“It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art… — Jonathan Edwards Art Copy Share Image
“As they have the public society under their care and power, so they have advantage to promote the public interest every way;… — Jonathan Edwards Benevolence Copy Share Image
“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our… — Jonathan Edwards Business Copy Share Image
“Of his seventy Resolutions, all written before he was twenty, the following may be taken as a specimen: it is the language… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity Copy Share Image
“All wicked men’s pains and contrivance they use to escape hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked men,… — Jonathan Edwards Hell 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“The prophet Jeremiah (chap. xxv. 3), puts the people in mind how long he had labored among them in the work of… — Jonathan Edwards Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other. — Jonathan Edwards Education Copy Share Image
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. — Jonathan Edwards Christian Copy Share Image
Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years… — Jonathan Edwards Christian Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards American literature Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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