Top 100 Quotes About Jonathan Edwards
#1. There has been a wonderful alteration in my mind, in respect to the doctrine of God's sovereignty. ... The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. JONATHAN EDWARDS
John Piper
#2. I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.
Frederick William Robertson
#3. The whole creation of God preaches, as Jonathan Edwards
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#4. 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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#5. Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
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#6. Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:
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#8. The Rich man was let alone in his sin suffered to go on without molestation. He fared sumptuously every day, slept secure and expected no disturbance. And the first of his awaking out of his security was when he lifted up his eyes that were now opened being in torments.
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#9. Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.
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#10. Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
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#11. The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?
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#16. 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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#18. [the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...
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#19. Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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#20. Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell.
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#21. O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
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#22. True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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#23. All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.
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#24. Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of.
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#25. My soul longs to feel itself more of a pilgrim and stranger here below; that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.
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#27. He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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#28. Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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#29. Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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#31. Yea, the least glimpse of the glory of God in the face of Christ doth more exalt and ennoble the soul, than all the knowledge of those that have the greatest speculative understanding in divinity, without grace.
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#32. All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
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#33. Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;
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#34. 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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#35. They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.
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#36. 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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#37. There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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#38. Our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. Oh, the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!
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#42. Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
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#43. I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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#44. There seems to be the utmost danger, that the younger generation will be carried away with Arminianism as with a flood.
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#45. You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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#46. What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?
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#47. 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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#48. Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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#49. 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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#50. But his mouth was that of the just, which bringeth forth wisdom, and whose lips dispense knowledge.
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#51. Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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#52. 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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#53. The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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#54. 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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#55. Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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#56. The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. While Mr. Edwards was in the town, and they had no other minister to preach to them, they carried on public worship among themselves, and without any preaching, rather than invite him.
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#60. 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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#61. Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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#62. I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early.
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#63. The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. Though we are not the efficient causes of our own acts of will, yet they may be either virtuous or vicious;
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#71. One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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#72. The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
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#73. The Indian languages are extremely barbarous and barren, and very ill fitted for communicating things moral and divine, or even things speculative and abstract.
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#74. When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
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#75. A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. In the person of Christ do meet together infinite majesty and transcendent meekness. These
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#79. We ought not to limit God where He has not limited Himself.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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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#82. True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
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#83. On his world record triple jump - It's only jumping into a sandpit.
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#84. 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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#85. There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
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#86. 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.
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#87. There is no comfort, I find, in any enjoyment, without enjoying God, and being engaged in his service.
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#88. Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation;
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#89. Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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#90. Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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#91. When those that we have formerly been conversant with, are turning to God, and joining themselves to his people, it ought to be our firm resolution, that we will not leave them; but that their people shall be our people, and their God our God. It
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#92. He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine.
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#93. That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive,
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#94. 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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#95. You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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#96. Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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#97. 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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#98. Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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#99. 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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#100. Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
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