Psychology Quotes by Jonathan Edwards

16 Psychology quotes by Jonathan Edwards

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Jonathan Edwards blends theological depth with psychological curiosity, delivering concise statements that probe the moral and mental dimensions of human experience.

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The material universe exists only in the mind.

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“Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone…

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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether…

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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is…

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“So much the more men exalt themselves, so much the less will they surely be disposed to exalt God. ’Tis certainly a…

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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth,…

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That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can…

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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue…

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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly…

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“It need not seem at all strange that sin should so blind the mind, seeing that men’s particular natural tempers and dispositions…

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“The prophet Jeremiah (chap. xxv. 3), puts the people in mind how long he had labored among them in the work of…

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

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

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“This spiritual light is not the suggesting of any new truths or propositions not contained in the word of God. This suggesting…

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

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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“Edwards sought to impose a new test of qualification. He required, namely, that the candidate for full communion should give evidence of being converted,…

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