The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. — 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
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
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
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek… — 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
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see… — 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
Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or… — 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
“The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in… — 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
