Love Quotes by Jonathan Edwards

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

— Jonathan Edwards

“When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.”

— Jonathan Edwards

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

— Jonathan Edwards

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

— Jonathan Edwards

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

— Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Our having all of God shows the fulness of his power and grace: our having all through him shows the fulness of…

— Jonathan Edwards

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of…

— Jonathan Edwards

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in…

— Jonathan Edwards

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute;…

— Jonathan Edwards

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and…

— Jonathan Edwards

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those…

— Jonathan Edwards

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

“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;…

— Jonathan Edwards

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

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

All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where…

— Jonathan Edwards

I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I…

— Jonathan Edwards

“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

“Every saint in heaven is as a flower in that garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The heart of Christ, the great Head of all the saints, is more full of love than the heart of any saint…

— Jonathan Edwards

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection…

— Jonathan Edwards

“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of…

— Jonathan Edwards

“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight…

— Jonathan Edwards

“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

“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly…

— Jonathan Edwards

Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the “river of the water of life,” that runs,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to…

— Jonathan Edwards

“In every act of the will whatsoever, the soul either likes or dislikes, is either inclined or disinclined to what is in…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises.…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in…

— Jonathan Edwards

“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and…

— Jonathan Edwards

All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“(however you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form…

— Jonathan Edwards

Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such…

— Jonathan Edwards

“God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.…

— Jonathan Edwards