Quotes from Jonathan Edwards

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

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

The door of God's mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners 'Come.'

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

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

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

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

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.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

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

Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.

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

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

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.