God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in. — 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… — Jonathan Edwards 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
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This is the most excellent and divine wisdom that any creature is capable of. ’Tis more excellent than any human learning; ’tis… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight… — Jonathan Edwards 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 Copy Share Image
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important. — Jonathan Edwards 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 Copy Share Image
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life — Jonathan Edwards 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
“Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying. — Jonathan Edwards 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 Copy Share Image
“(however you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly… — Jonathan Edwards 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 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 Copy Share Image
We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of… — 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