Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. — Jonathan Edwards 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
By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. — Jonathan Edwards 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 Copy Share Image
“The hope he had of seeing the blessed fruit of his labors and sufferings in the ministry, in their happiness and glory,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“III. Happiness is nowhere else to be had, but in their God, and with their people. There are that are called gods… — 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 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