Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly… — Jonathan Edwards Belief Copy Share Image
“Take heed that it be not with any of you as with Eli of old, who reproved his children but restrained them… — Jonathan Edwards Children Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being. — Jonathan Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in… — Jonathan Edwards Affection Copy Share Image
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. — Jonathan Edwards Glory 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 Body Copy Share Image
“Hence was the different effect that Christ’s miracles had to convince the disciples from what they had to convince the Scribes and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. — Jonathan Edwards Expression 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 Believe Copy Share Image
“And then our late grand controversy, concerning the qualifications necessary for admission to the privileges of members in complete standing in the… — Jonathan Edwards Church of christ Copy Share Image
“Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the… — Jonathan Edwards Government Copy Share Image
“III. Happiness is nowhere else to be had, but in their God, and with their people. There are that are called gods… — Jonathan Edwards Happiness Copy Share Image
“Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone… — Jonathan Edwards Light of the world Copy Share Image
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind. — Jonathan Edwards Christ Copy Share Image
“Our cleaving to them, and having their God for our God and their people for our people, depends on our resolution and… — Jonathan Edwards Respect Copy Share Image
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that… — Jonathan Edwards Creation 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 Confidence 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 Learning 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 Cry Copy Share Image
“It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art… — Jonathan Edwards Art 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 All kinds Copy Share Image
“In every act of the will whatsoever, the soul either likes or dislikes, is either inclined or disinclined to what is in… — Jonathan Edwards Joy Copy Share Image
I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved,… — Jonathan Edwards Age Copy Share Image
“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly… — Jonathan Edwards Character Copy Share Image
