Jonathan Edwards

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

— Jonathan Edwards

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

— Jonathan Edwards

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

— Jonathan Edwards

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

— Jonathan Edwards

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

— Jonathan Edwards

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

— Jonathan Edwards

“Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.”

— Jonathan Edwards

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

— Jonathan Edwards

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

— Jonathan Edwards

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

— Jonathan Edwards

Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.”

— Jonathan Edwards

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

— Jonathan Edwards

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

— Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

— Jonathan Edwards

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

— Jonathan Edwards

“tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ,…

— Jonathan Edwards

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

“The gospel is made use of in this affair: this light is the “light of the glorious gospel of Christ,” 2 Cor.…

— Jonathan Edwards

“This knowledge is that which is above all others sweet and joyful. Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“reason to fear that Arminianism, Arianism, and even Socinianism, in destruction to the doctrines of free grace, are daily propagated in the…

— Jonathan Edwards

If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power,…

— Jonathan Edwards

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those…

— Jonathan Edwards

“And those who have well received and entertained them shall be gloriously rewarded: Matt. x. 40, 41, “He that receiveth you receiveth…

— Jonathan Edwards

“How can God be happy and decree calamity? Consider that he has the capacity to view the world through two lenses. Through…

— Jonathan Edwards

“But they that evil entreat Christ’s faithful ministers, especially in that wherein they are faithful, shall be severely punished: Matt. x. 14,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and…

— Jonathan Edwards

“We are saved through the righteousness of Christ: he is made unto us righteousness; and therefore is prophesied of, Jer. xxiii. 6,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“(however you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form…

— Jonathan Edwards

“but are in danger of going to hell and having their place of eternal abode fixed there. You may be encouraged by…

— Jonathan Edwards

“All wicked men’s pains and contrivance they use to escape hell, while they continue to reject Christ, and so remain wicked men,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Of his seventy Resolutions, all written before he was twenty, the following may be taken as a specimen: it is the language…

— Jonathan Edwards

Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The prophet Jeremiah (chap. xxv. 3), puts the people in mind how long he had labored among them in the work of…

— Jonathan Edwards

“It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art…

— Jonathan Edwards

“As they have the public society under their care and power, so they have advantage to promote the public interest every way;…

— Jonathan Edwards

“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our…

— Jonathan Edwards

“This spiritual light is not the suggesting of any new truths or propositions not contained in the word of God. This suggesting…

— Jonathan Edwards