black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Jonathan Edwards

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

Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Better End Possible Respect Time
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creature God Happiness
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Leadership Movement Requirement Revival
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Breathe Expression Life Natural Prayer
The material universe exists only in the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Existence Material Mindset Universe
They 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 EDWARDS

Creditor Due God Grace Mercy True
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Alone Mindset Wisdom World
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Chief God Life Seek
By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Happiness Misery Ourselves Purchase Satisfaction
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Believe Forever God Price Sacrifice
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jonathan Edwards Quotes