Jonathan Edwards Quotes (24 Quotes)

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

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'

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.

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

I look forward to maintaining and building on the significant athlete involvement that played such an important role in bringing the Games to London.

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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.

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

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, seem to impart a quiet in the mind.

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

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.

Nathan's Britain's big hope in the field and in the back of the mind he'll know that, if he doesn't get a medal, we don't have too many other options.

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

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.

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

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

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

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

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.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devils reach as humility.

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.

The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

This dictate of common sense.