Quotes from Jonathan Edwards

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

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

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

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.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

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 glory, and that these two are one passion.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

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

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

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

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian's love must be universal!

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

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

A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.

The heart is like a viper, hissing and spitting poison at God.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge or infinite mountains over my head.

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

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

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

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.