Jonathan Edwards Quotes

Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

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?

True 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.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.

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.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.