Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
• Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias…
• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
• There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived…
• The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
• I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer;…
• Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
• All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the…
• Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
• God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls…
• As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as…
• If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the…
• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or…
• He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
• Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
• From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we…

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