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God Quotes by Jonathan Edwards
- Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
- The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
- To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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;…
More God Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare