black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Jonathan Edwards

Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Greatness Nature
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

Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Intend Learning Teacher
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Care Examination Force God Love
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Important Knowledge Ourselves
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Agreement God Ideas Truth
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Live Lose Moments Myself Possible
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Devil God Grace Operation Save Spirit
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creation Display End Glorify Himself
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Education Effect Family Grace Order Prosperity
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Expectation Forever God Himself
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Ground Preparation Trust Way Yourself
God’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 EDWARDS

Glory God Life Oneself Passion Purpose
Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Follow God Love Man Stand
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Creature God Happiness

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jonathan Edwards Quotes