“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
“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
“Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.” — 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“(however you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“° I have sought the good, and not the hurt of our young people. I have desired their truest honor and happiness,… — 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
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us. — 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
