Top 100 Jonathan Edwards Quotes
#1. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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#2. The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!
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#4. If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
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#5. I wanted not the favor of man to lean upon; for I knew Christ's favor was infinitely better, and that it was no matter when, nor where, nor how Christ should send me, nor what trials He should still exercise me with, if I might be prepared for His work and will.
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#6. 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.
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#7. [the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...
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#8. He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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#9. Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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#10. Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;
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#11. The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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#12. Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.
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#13. Our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.
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#14. 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.
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#15. II. Their people are an excellent and happy people. God has renewed them, and instamped his own image upon them, and made them partakers of his holiness. They are more excellent than their neighbors, Prov. xii. 26.
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#16. Oh, the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!
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#17. Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
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#18. You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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#19. There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.
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#20. The presbyterian way has ever appeared to me most agreeable to the word of God, and the reason and nature of things;
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#21. Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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#22. True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.
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#23. Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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#24. The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
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#25. 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.
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#26. None that will come to Christ, let his condition be what it will, need to fear but that Christ will provide a place suitable for him in heaven.
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#27. Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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#28. I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early.
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#29. Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under the domination of sin than to confer holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.
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#30. If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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#31. Grace of God in bestowing this gift is most free. It was what God was under no obligation to bestow: he might have rejected fallen man, as he did the fallen angels. It
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#32. Whatever is absolutely valuable in itself and is also capable of being sought and obtained by God is his ultimate end in creating the world.
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#33. When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
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#34. A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.
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#35. Such people, and their faithful ministers, shall be each other's crown of rejoicing: 1 Thess. ii. 19, 20, "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy.
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#36. In the person of Christ do meet together infinite majesty and transcendent meekness. These
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#37. We ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself.
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#38. If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perceive the sweetness of food.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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#41. That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive,
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#42. Natural men may have lively impressions on their imaginations; and we can't determine but that the devil, who transforms himself into an angel of light, may cause imaginations of an outward beauty, or visible glory, and of sounds and speeches and other such things;
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#43. Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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#44. It should be our firm and inflexible resolution in such a case that it shall be no parting, but that we will follow them, that their people shall be our people, and their God our God; and that for the following reasons: I. Because their God is a glorious God.
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#45. Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
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#46. God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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#47. 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.
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#48. The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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#51. When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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#52. I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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#53. He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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#54. He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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#55. On the other hand, those ministers who are found to have been unfaithful shall have a most terrible punishment. See Ezek. xxxiii. 6; Matt. xxiii. 1-33. Thus justice shall be administered at the great day to ministers and their people.
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#56. That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.
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#57. 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.
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#59. If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
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#60. Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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#61. 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.
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#62. To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.
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#63. A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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#65. The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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#66. Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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#67. Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
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#72. Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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#73. The example of Jesus Christ is the only perfect example that ever existed in human nature. It is therefore, a rule by which to try all other examples; and the dispositions, frames and practices of others, must be commended and followed no further than they were followers of Christ.
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#74. When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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#75. And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
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#76. Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission ... were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable.
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#77. I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite ... When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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#79. Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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#80. In order to this there must be something besides a general tendency to action; there must also be a particular tendency to that individual action. - If it should be asked, why the soul of man uses its activity, in such a manner as it does;
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#81. He who has no religious affection, is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart.
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#82. A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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#83. Those who are backslidden are much more hardened in their sin than they were before. They are like iron which being once heated and cooled again becomes much harder than before.
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#84. All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.
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#85. 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.
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#87. All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.
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#88. Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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#89. Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.
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#90. Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.
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#91. I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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#92. Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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#93. Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.
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#94. A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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#95. He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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#96. Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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#97. Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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#98. Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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#99. How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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#100. As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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