“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
“A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — 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
“at New Haven with the valedictory. In his Sophomore year he made the acquaintance of Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding—a work… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other. — 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
