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
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute;… — 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
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. — 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
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those… — 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
