“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
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“If you should happen to settle a minister who knows nothing truly of Christ and the way of salvation by him, nothing… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Natural men may have lively impressions on their imaginations; and we can’t determine but that the devil, who transforms himself into an… — 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
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“In the soul where Christ savingly is, there He lives. He not only lives without it, so as violently to actuate it,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth, yea, doubtless, with many that are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This light is such as effectually influences the inclination, and changes the nature of the soul. It assimilates the nature to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Natural men’s prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don’t secure ’em a… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“the presbyterian way has ever appeared to me most agreeable to the word of God, and the reason and nature of things;” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“I am not ashamed to own that I believe that the whole universe, heaven and earth, air and seas, and the divine… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge, in studies of natural things; but this is nothing to that joy… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The opposition which had driven him from Northampton followed him to Stockbridge. For several years a persistent effort was made to obstruct… — 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
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