Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding. — Jonathan Edwards Child 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 House of god 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 Faith Copy Share Image
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important. — Jonathan Edwards God Copy Share Image
“Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.” — Jonathan Edwards Anger Copy Share Image
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Natural men’s prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don’t secure ’em a… — Jonathan Edwards Divine providence Copy Share Image
You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be… — Jonathan Edwards Bible Copy Share Image
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether… — Jonathan Edwards Christ Copy Share Image
“That we manifest our approbation of the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism, as containing an excellent system of divinity; and we purpose to preach… — Jonathan Edwards Bible Copy Share Image
“Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what… — Jonathan Edwards Freedom 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… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Of the grace of God. It was of mere grace that God gave us his only begotten Son. The grace is great… — Jonathan Edwards Grace Copy Share Image
“When God is worshipped in them in spirit and truth, they become the outworks of heaven and as it were its gates.… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity 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… — Jonathan Edwards Bible Copy Share Image
“Thus there is a difference between having an opinion that God is holy and gracious, and having a sense of the loveliness… — Jonathan Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so ’tis easy for… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“First, All the good that they have is in and through Christ; he is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.… — Jonathan Edwards Justice Copy Share Image
“° I have sought the good, and not the hurt of our young people. I have desired their truest honor and happiness,… — Jonathan Edwards Another world Copy Share Image
“So Isaiah lxvi. 15, “For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his… — Jonathan Edwards Wrath 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“Of his seventy Resolutions, all written before he was twenty, the following may be taken as a specimen: it is the language… — Jonathan Edwards Christianity Copy Share Image
“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 Hell Copy Share Image
“The prophet Jeremiah (chap. xxv. 3), puts the people in mind how long he had labored among them in the work of… — Jonathan Edwards Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“So, without doubt, and much more, is the speech of God (if there be any such thing as the speech of God)… — Jonathan Edwards Communication Copy Share Image
“First, ’Tis scriptural. My text is not only full to the purpose, but ’tis a doctrine that the Scripture abounds in. We… — Jonathan Edwards Bible Copy Share Image
“The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and is the “river of the water of life,” that runs,… — Jonathan Edwards Beauty Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But… — Jonathan Edwards Christian humility Copy Share Image
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. — Jonathan Edwards Gratitude Copy Share Image
“[the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...” — Jonathan Edwards Hungry lion Copy Share Image
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life — Jonathan Edwards Business Copy Share Image
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. — Jonathan Edwards God Copy Share Image
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. — Jonathan Edwards Christ Copy Share Image
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is… — Jonathan Edwards Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Faith abases men and exalts God, it gives all the glory of redemption to God alone.” — Jonathan Edwards Faith Copy Share Image