black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

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

Bold Himself Offend Transcendence True
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith God Nature Power
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Devil Humility Person Reach
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Faith God Right Sin
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Cover Hell Man Walk
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
As 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 EDWARDS

Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Himself Need Religious
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Live Myself Resolution Willing
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Charm Holy Soul
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Children Enemy Hold Light Rule
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Chief God Life Seek
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Delight Humility World
If 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 EDWARDS

Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Live Prayer World

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jonathan Edwards Quotes