Quotes from Jonathan Edwards

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

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.

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

The material universe exists only in the mind.

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

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

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.

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; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

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

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

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

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

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.