I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I… — 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
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in… — 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
“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — 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 Image
“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 Image
God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. — Jonathan Edwards 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 the kingdom… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/2fd/jonathan-edwards-770_affection_but-it-is-doubtless-true-and-evident-fro_82879.jpg)
