Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
JONATHAN EDWARDSChrist gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
-
-
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
A 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 EDWARDS -
Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
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 EDWARDS -
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS -
Sincere 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 EDWARDS