Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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• A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and…
• God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that…
• One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
• Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the…
• If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything…
• I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right…
• Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to…
• Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
• Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
• Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the…
• That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it…
• True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage…
• Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
• So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to…
• The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan…
• A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their…
• true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by…
• Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
• Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of…
• Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the…

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