Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. — Jonathan Edwards Hell Copy Share Image
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith. — Jonathan Edwards Christ Copy Share Image
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The estrangement between Edwards and his people began in 1744, in connection with a case of discipline in which a large number… — Jonathan Edwards Books Copy Share Image
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being… — Jonathan Edwards Affliction Copy Share Image
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 Christian Copy Share Image
“V. Our resolutions to cleave to and follow those that are turning to God, and joining themselves to his people, ought to… — Jonathan Edwards Resolutions Copy Share Image
“All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with… — Jonathan Edwards Depravity Copy Share Image
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and… — Jonathan Edwards Abyss 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 Beauty 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Now they meet together in a preparatory mutable state, but then in an unchangeable state. Now sinners in the congregation meet their… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more… — Jonathan Edwards Hardships 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… — Jonathan Edwards Body Copy Share Image
Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in… — Jonathan Edwards Advantage Copy Share Image
“God is the fountain of all blessing and prosperity, and he will be sought to for his blessing. I would therefore advise… — Jonathan Edwards Family Copy Share Image
“Let me therefore earnestly exhort you, as you would seek your own future good hereafter, to watch against a contentious spirit.° If… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone… — Jonathan Edwards Light of the world Copy Share Image
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved,… — Jonathan Edwards Age Copy Share Image
“Humility is a great ingredient of true faith: he that truly receives redemption, receives it as a little child: Mark x. 15,… — Jonathan Edwards Children Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, those ministers who are found to have been unfaithful shall have a most terrible punishment. See Ezek. xxxiii.… — Jonathan Edwards Great day 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 Contempt Copy Share Image
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that… — Jonathan Edwards Creation Copy Share Image
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of… — Jonathan Edwards Alive Copy Share Image
“There arises from this sense of divine excellency of things contained in the word of God a conviction of the truth and… — Jonathan Edwards Faith Copy Share Image
“And it may be thus described: a true sense of the divine excellency of the things revealed in the word of God,… — Jonathan Edwards Faith Copy Share Image
“If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we… — Jonathan Edwards Burdens Copy Share Image
“God is glorified in the work of redemption in this, that there appears in it so absolute and universal a dependence of… — Jonathan Edwards Freedom Copy Share Image
“It need not seem at all strange that sin should so blind the mind, seeing that men’s particular natural tempers and dispositions… — Jonathan Edwards Psychology Copy Share Image
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in… — Jonathan Edwards Bible 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 God Copy Share Image
“This knowledge is that which is above all others sweet and joyful. Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge,… — Jonathan Edwards Divine light 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 Absolutes Copy Share Image
“The gospel is made use of in this affair: this light is the “light of the glorious gospel of Christ,” 2 Cor.… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“reason to fear that Arminianism, Arianism, and even Socinianism, in destruction to the doctrines of free grace, are daily propagated in the… — Jonathan Edwards Arminianism Copy Share Image
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek… — Jonathan Edwards Applause Copy Share Image