I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
JONATHAN EDWARDSBy 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 EDWARDSResolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDSTrue 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 EDWARDSSincere 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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSYou have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe material universe exists only in the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
JONATHAN EDWARDSLord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
JONATHAN EDWARDS