No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. — 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
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.” — 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
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
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
“Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be… — 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
“Humility is a great ingredient of true faith: he that truly receives redemption, receives it as a little child: Mark x. 15,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out… — 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
“It is of vast consequence how ministers discharge their office, and conduct themselves towards their people in the work of the ministry,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“If the evidence of the gospel depended only on history, and such reasonings as learned men only are capable of, it would… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited… — 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… — 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
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 deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Let me therefore earnestly exhort you, as you would seek your own future good hereafter, to watch against a contentious spirit.° If… — 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
“Ministers and their people, while their relation continues, often meet together in this world. They are wont to meet from Sabbath to… — 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
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This spiritual light is not the suggesting of any new truths or propositions not contained in the word of God. This suggesting… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? — 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
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of… — 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
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed… — 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
![“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole…” quote by Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2fd/jonathan-edwards-770_affection_but-it-is-doubtless-true-and-evident-fro_82879.jpg)
