“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor… — 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
“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
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The heart of Christ, the great Head of all the saints, is more full of love than the heart of any saint… — 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
Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. — 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
“When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the… — 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
There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Their hearts shall be full of love. That which was in the heart on earth as but a grain of mustard-seed, shall… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of… — 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
“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
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — 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
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
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. — 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
