Jonathan Edwards Quotes

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.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

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.

A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.