I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSNothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThey 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
JONATHAN EDWARDSEnvy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBeing sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSMen will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe material universe exists only in the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIt 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHow can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDSUnconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS