How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDSHow can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDSGodliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSeek 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAmong 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 EDWARDSResolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe material universe exists only in the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAlmost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
JONATHAN EDWARDSOf all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTemples 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS