Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSLove is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
JONATHAN EDWARDSReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIf 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 EDWARDSResolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDSAs God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGod’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
JONATHAN EDWARDSI go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHe who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
JONATHAN EDWARDSFrom love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
JONATHAN EDWARDSConsider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe material universe exists only in the mind.
JONATHAN EDWARDS