Jonathan Edwards (theologian) Quotes

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

It is a proper and excellent thing for infinite glory to shine forth; and for the same reason, it is...

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the o...

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning ...

He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be h...

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their r...

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an ...

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it...

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion l...

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and...

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and w...

As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subseq...

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infin...

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the sa...

But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it ...

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real ...

Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or p...

Take away all the moral beauty and sweetness in the Word, and the Bible is left wholly a dead letter...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it di...

True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruli...

In the soul where Christ savingly is, there He lives. He not only lives without it, so as violently ...

The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the concei...

We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of G...

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

Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by ...

But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection th...

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree ...

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his ...

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold o...

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the...

The material universe exists only in the mind.

All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentari...

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that...

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here...

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, i...

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity an...

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and after...

The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is the...

If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to rea...

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

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and pl...

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being,...

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to...

Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin...

The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to...

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the bus...

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, becaus...

If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not ...

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.