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 seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
-
-
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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 -
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
I 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 -
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
JONATHAN EDWARDS