Jonathan Edwards Quotes

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

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 the sight of something better.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

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

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

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

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

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

To live with all my might, while I do live

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

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

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

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

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

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 the same.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

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

The material universe exists only in the mind.

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.