“Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“In every act of the will whatsoever, the soul either likes or dislikes, is either inclined or disinclined to what is in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the “river of the water of life,” that runs,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Our having all of God shows the fulness of his power and grace: our having all through him shows the fulness of… — 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 spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises.… — 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
